Quoth Peter Memishian on Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:54:23AM +0800: > > > Looking into this more, I believe the stability values for properties can > > > be provided in the SMF service manifests (under /var/svc/manifest) -- and > > > those values are shown by svccfg. But I'm not sure if a warning is > > > produced when an unstable property is manipulated by the user. > > > > It is certainly not. > > Your phrasing seems to suggest you think this would be a bad idea -- but > it seems pretty easy overlook the stability levels today and make a change > to an unstable property. Could you say more?
No, I think it's a good idea. I was merely communicating the fact that svccfg was written to be the bare-bones low-level interface to the repository. Unfortunately, in lieu of a higher-level interface, it has become the only customizing interface, which is why people find it deficient. High-level functionality needs to be somewhere. We'd prefer it be in "Visual Panels" ( http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vpanels ), but that may be far enough off or so high-level as to call for some high-level functionality in svccfg itself. I believe such is being contemplated as part of the aforementioned "Templates" project. David
